Meta ‘consent or pay’ flayed again in new EU judgment
Brussels chiefs appear to have hammered the final nail in the coffin for Meta’s controversial “consent or pay” subscription service,…
Mass GDPR complaints force Meta to pause AI data grab
Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems has secured yet another victory against Facebook owner Meta, after the tech giant has paused…
Meta’s mega AI data grab sparks mass GDPR complaint
Meta’s plans to exploit years of personal posts, private images or online tracking data on its sites to build a…
Brussels blows ‘consent or pay’ models out of the water
The European Data Protection Board has issued a damning opinion on the “consent or pay” models deployed by large online…
Decision imminent on legality of Meta’s ‘consent or pay’
The European Data Protection Board – which is made up of all of the EU’s data privacy chiefs – is…
Critics round on Meta for subscription price drop offer
Meta’s proposal to drop the price of its subscription service in the EU – which sees Facebook and Instagram users…
Meta hit by double whammy over ‘illegal’ data practices
Meta is facing a double data protection showdown on both sides of the English Channel with EU chiefs being urged…
Meta ad-free service faces data protection showdown
Meta’s ad-free subscription service for Facebook and Instagram is not only illegal – and pitiful – it takes data protection…
Meta waves white flag over Threads deletion demand
Meta appears to have bowed to pressure from the Information Commissioner’s Office over its Threads platform, once hailed as a…
Social media giants cough up €3bn for privacy failings
Social media marketing and messaging has become a high-risk activity in the GDPR era, with the most popular platforms –…